Boot Sector Virus Help For Win98


  1. ragweed
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    Boot Sector Virus Help For Win98


    Hi Everyone! A freind of mine has a boot sector virus. He is running Win98 on Dialup. I know its slooow. Is there any program he can download from a safe site that will detect & remove it? Thanks!
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  3. Prisoner
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    Download this, save it to a flash drive, plug it in to his system, and run it. That might be able to fix it. That also skips having to wait 12 hours (literally) to download. Good luck to him!
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  4. ragweed
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    Thanks!
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  6. Prisoner
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    No problem. :)
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